Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehiclesRoutzahn, Mary Swain
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Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehicles
Routzahn, Mary Swain
Educational exhibits, Traveling
=Land Clearing Demonstration Train.= Subject: better farming. State
College of Agriculture, several land clearing machinery and explosive
manufacturers, and several railroads co-operated. 1916-1919. Six cars
consisting of a flat car, two box cars for equipment, two bunk cars,
and a boarding car for the attendants. Demonstrations and instruction.
=Stump Pulling Special.= Subject: clearing cut-over lands. State
College of Agriculture, several land clearing machinery and explosive
manufacturers, Chicago and Northwestern, and Chicago, Minneapolis and
St. Paul Railroads. 1916. Flat car, two box cars for equipment, two
bunk cars, and a boarding car for the attendants. Demonstrations and
instruction. Similar trains, with some changes in cars used and in
co-operating agencies, were run in 1917 and 1919.
HEALTH TRAINS
=United States. First Aid Train.= American Red Cross. 1920. Fully
equipped railroad coach to render and teach first aid to the injured.
Treatment and instruction.
=California. Sanitation Car.= Subject: protection of water supply,
disposal of sewage, and instruction in disease prevention. State Board
of Health. 1909. Continued annually. Exhibits and demonstrations.
=Florida. Sanitation and Health Train.= State Board of Health. 1916
and 1917. Two exhibit cars. Lectures with motion pictures and slides.
=Kansas. Health Car “Warren.”= Subject: health and child welfare.
State Board of Health. 1916. Exhibit car.
=Kentucky. Health Exhibit Car.= Subject: tuberculosis prevention and
cure. 1912. Kentucky Tuberculosis Association and several railroads
co-operated.
=Louisiana. Health Train.= Subjects: child welfare, food, and disease
prevention. State Board of Health. 1910. Continuously since then.
Four cars including an exhibit car, a laboratory car with garage
compartment carrying Ford car for country trips and quick collection
of water samples, and two cars for administrative and living quarters.
=Missouri. Traveling Car Exhibit.= Subject: instruction in
anti-tuberculosis measures. Missouri Association for the Relief and
Control of Tuberculosis. 1908. One exhibit coach.
=West Virginia. Health Car.= State Department of Health. 1919.
Vestibuled coach, equipped with electrically driven models, posters,
exhibits of living bacteria, sanitation exhibits, a moving picture
machine, and a small chemical and bacteriological laboratory in one end
of the car.
=Tuberculosis Exhibit Car.= Subject: prevention and cure of
tuberculosis. West Virginia Tuberculosis League and several railroads.
1913 and 1914. Car for exhibits and lectures.
MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS--TRAINS
=Canada. Made-in-Canada Train.= Subject: trade extension. Canadian
Manufacturers Association. Ten cars for exhibits, demonstrations, and
moving picture lectures.
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